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RESOLUTION ON THE TELEGRAM OF I. N. SMIRNOV
[1920, March, not earlier than 15]

I have no objection if he undertakes to replace himself without detriment to the cause¹.

¹ The published resolution was written on a telegram from the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 5th Army, I. N. Smirnov, in which he reported that he had been elected as a delegate to the IX Congress of the RCP(b) from the 5th Army, and asked the Central Committee of the RCP(b) whether there were any objections to his departure from Siberia.

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DIRECTIVE TO SECRETARY
[1920, March, not earlier than 16]

Record the reply from Rykov or Glavmekh and show it to me¹.

¹ The directive was written on a telegram from a craftsman engaged in sheepskin processing. The telegram reported that, by order of the Provincial Economic Council (Gubmekh), sheepskins in his possession had been registered by the volost executive committee, which demanded their delivery in finished form. The craftsman wrote that the sheepskins had been obtained from poor and middle peasants and he processes the raw material together with his son. "I am forced to ask you," the telegram stated, "to permit me to work as before for the poor." The words "permit me to work" were underlined twice by Lenin.

23Ш
EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH L. B. KRASIN¹
[1920, later than March 16]

Calculation of the demands of the glavks and commissariats for foreign manufactures, excluding locomotives, after reduction in the commissariat, came to 700,000,000 rubles in gold!

We shall have to cut them ruthlessly and order only locomotives, pipes for the Emba, and that's all.

Of course, everything to the devil.

1) Locomotives